Fiscal Reality and Academic Quality: Part-Time Faculty and the Challenge to Organizational Culture at Community Colleges

Wagoner, Richard L.; Metcalfe, Amy Scott; Olaore, Israel B.

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“…Research comparing the effectiveness of part-time and full-time faculty is rarely cited by critics (Gappa, 1984, p. 8). In addition, the two primary areas of concern regarding part-time faculty, working conditions (exploitation of part-time faculty) and the lack of integration into the institutional culture, have not been fully explored (Wagoner et al, 2005).…”

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The Effects of Part-Time Faculty on First Semester Freshmen Retention: A Predictive Model Using Logistic Regression

Jaeger

Hinz

2008

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Pr

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Part-time faculty clearly serve a valuable purpose in higher education; however, their increased use raises concerns for administrators, faculty, and policy makers. Part-time faculty members spend a greater proportion of their overall time teaching, but the initial evidence suggests that these instructors are less available to students and are less engaged with the campus environment. Recent research attempts to connect part-time faculty utilization to student outcomes. This study explored the effects of exposure to part-time faculty instruction on student retention. Typical first-year students entering the study institution between 1999 and 2003 received over one-quarter of their total first-year instruction from part-time faculty. Furthermore, results show that as exposure to part-time faculty instruction increases, the odds of being retained decrease. Because the use of part-time faculty varies based on institutional type, additional research should focus on diverse institutional settings.

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Section: Part-time Faculty Dilemmamentioning

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The Effects of Part-Time Faculty on First Semester Freshmen Retention: A Predictive Model Using Logistic Regression

Jaeger

Hinz

2008

Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Pr

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“…I eagerly approached this project because I had been looking for a vehicle to move some of my work back toward part‐time faculty and my first thoughts and rough ideas were based on the work focused on part‐time faculty that was well‐represented in in the first decade of the twenty‐first century (Jaeger & Eagan, ; Levin, Kater, & Wagoner, ; Townsend & Twombley, ; Wagoner, Metcalfe, & Olaore, ; Wagoner, , 2007b, 2007c, 2007d), assuming that some of the conclusions and results of those studies would need to be updated. Given the lack of new empirical work cited above, that is not necessarily the case, but it certainly has driven home one of the reasons that I began to look at new community college questions after having devoted much time and effort to part‐time faculty: it seemed to me that it had all been said and done before.…”

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Ethics of Employment: The New Adjunct Majority

Wagoner

2019

New Drctns Community Coll

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“…part-time employment is unethical, unfair labor practice, irresponsible, exploitative, and the like (Gappa and Leslie, 1997;Rhoades, 1998;Roueche, Roueche, and Milliron, 1995;Wagoner, Metcalfe, and Olaore, 2005), they refrain from challenging the goals of the institution-goals that are the basis of the practice. In order to change the practice, community college goals must be altered.…”

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Multiple judgments: Institutional context and part‐time faculty

Levin

2007

New Drctns Community Coll

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Part-time faculty members at community colleges are customarily understood from an institutional perspective that is based on traditional conceptions of the community college as a component of a tiered educational system (high school, community college, four-year college or university). This conception places the community college in the role of either a junior college or a training school. This traditional conception highlights academic preparation, skills development, and sequential learning and justifies the institution's worth through proxies such as degree attainment, job placement, and percentage of students who transfer to a four-year college or university. It is this conception that has been used to examine the role and condition of part-time faculty, conflating those at community colleges with those at universities and aggregating all part-time faculty as if they were part of this traditional conception. From this perspective, part-time faculty are viewed as either marginal or deleterious to the community college mission of student advancement.Yet there are other ways of viewing and understanding the community college distinct from the traditional conception. For example, I have used the term new world college to describe the behaviors and actions of community colleges that place them in a globalized and competitive economy (Levin, 2007). These institutions are components of the new liberalized world of economic global competition and are decidedly distinct from their old world, or European-generated, conceptions of higher education institutions, particularly universities-even those found in former European 15 2

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Fiscal Reality and Academic Quality: Part-Time Faculty and the Challenge to Organizational Culture at Community Colleges

Cited by 15 publications

References 12 publications

The Effects of Part-Time Faculty on First Semester Freshmen Retention: A Predictive Model Using Logistic Regression

The Effects of Part-Time Faculty on First Semester Freshmen Retention: A Predictive Model Using Logistic Regression

Ethics of Employment: The New Adjunct Majority

Multiple judgments: Institutional context and part‐time faculty

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